MacMost Now - Mac and iPhone Tips and Tutorials

View in HD at . You don't to print and scan a PDF document to sign it. You can use markup tools on your Mac to apply your own signature to a document. You can even do it quickly in Mail without needing to save the file. You can do it on the iPhone or iPad too.

View in HD at . Learn some advanced techniques for browsing the Web with Safari on your Mac. Use tabs more efficiently, add a Favorites bar, view two Web pages at the same time, autofill forms, log into multiple accounts at the same time, search engine tips and much more.

View in HD at . You can permanently and securely remove text and images from PDF documents with the Preview app on your Mac. This can be used to hide information from the next person to view the PDF, or to simply reduce the size of the file.

View in HD at . You can copy and paste text and objects in a variety of ways on your iPhone in iOS 17 and 18. You can use this to move content from one app to another.

View in HD at . While many apps have the option to export as a PDF file, you can actually do it with any app at all as long as there is an option to Print. Even screenshots can be turned into PDFs. You can do this on the iPhone and iPad too.

View in HD at . Tired of videos with mild productivity tips that are just minor tweaks to how you already work? Here are some extreme productivity ideas for Mac users that can really shake things up.

View in HD at . You can use tables in Pages for a lot more than just data. You can create simple layouts, alphabetize lists, make calendars, game boards, graph paper, timelines and more.

View in HD at . While it seems like the Menu Bar is built to be controlled with your mouse or trackpad, you can actually get to everything in the Menu Bar using only your keyboard. In fact, there are several ways to do control the Menu Bar with your keyboard.

View in HD at . Don't let yourself get frustrated by changes to your devices or apps. Learn to embrace change and look at it as an opportunity to learn new things and explore.

View in HD at . Reader View is a great way to read large amounts of text on a web page. Get rid of distractions like ads, navigation and sidebars, and read with larger text on a plain background. You can also use Reader View for nicer printouts, PDFs and text features.

View in HD at . You can add page numbers to the top or bottom of all of your pages in a Pages document. Learn how to add and modify them, skip pages, style the text and more.

View in HD at . You can extract pages and parts of pages from a PDF using a variety of different techniques on your Mac in Preview. One is so easy it almost isn't worth mentioning the others.

View in HD at . Learn some basic Numbers spreadsheet skills by building a document that tracks a stock portfolio. Learn to use functions, perform math operations, get column sums, format cells in various ways, use conditional highlighting, use multiple tables, build charts and more.

View in HD at . Before sending photos, consider the size of the attachments and what the recipient really needs. If it makes sense, use one of these techniques to shrink the photo file size down to something more appropriate.

View in HD at . The latest version of the free clipboard manager from MacMost includes a search function, the ability to snooze clip capture, and lots of new powerful Smart Clips functions.

View in HD at . When switching from Windows to Mac you'll see lots of specific tips for using and altering your Mac to make it more like Windows. But if you really want to switch, learn to do things the Mac way.

View in HD at . If you need to take and markup screenshots often, you don't need a third-party app. The built-in screenshot utility on your Mac will allow you to do this quickly and easily once you learn some tricks.

View in HD at . Before you sell, give away, or recycle your Mac, you should erase it first. You should also erase any used Mac you buy before you do anything else with it.

View in HD at . If a photo is part of your Photo's App library, how do you get it out and use it as a regular file? There are three proper ways you can export a photo, none of which involve messing around inside the library file.

View in HD at . When looking for files, folders, apps, web pages, templates or many other things, macOS provides you with quick-access lists of recent items to make it easier to find what you want.

View in HD at . If you use the Notes app to take notes while doing research or attending meetings, you should know about the Keep On Top feature that allows you to keep a Notes window floating above other windows at all times.

View in HD at . Ever want an extra set of buttons to control your Mac? Add single-press buttons to launch apps or do whatever you want. You don't need to get an expensive peripheral. A cheap extra keyboard or keypad will work if you also use a third-party keyboard tool to configure it.

View in HD at . If you need to rotate, trim, extract a frame or text from a video or audio file on a Mac, you don't need to even open an app. You can do all of these things and more just using the Finder and macOS.

View in HD at . If you need to rotate, trim, convert or just view some images on a Mac, you don't need to use any app at all. You can do these and more using just the tools in the Finder and macOS.

View in HD at . If you have a lot of notes in the Notes app you may want to try one or more of these techniques to organize them. You can use sorting, folders, tags, smart folders, links and other techniques.

View in HD at . Learn some Numbers spreadsheet skills by building a simple retirement planning table and chart. Learn how to use basic formulas to calculate how savings will grow with contributions and interest each year.

View in HD at . What do you do if someone sends you a Microsoft Word document, but you don't use Word on your Mac? You've got several options for viewing these documents, copying text from them, and even editing and saving in Word format without needing to buy anything.

View in HD at . You can use the News app as a customized article feed only from sources you want to see. So instead of reading about world news, politics or finance, you can make it your tech news, science news or entertainment news app.

View in HD at . You can rename multiple files using the Finder's hidden Batch Rename tool. You can change matching text in all file names, or add an index number to each file's name.

View in HD at . Apps like Pages, Numbers and Notes use specific colors for selected items and highlights. This is called the Accent Color. You can override the accent colors in these apps with a system-wide accent color setting.

View in HD at . Starting with macOS Sonoma you will see an indicator under the text cursor when you have Caps Lock turned, are using dictation, or have just switch keyboard input types. Here's more about this and how you can turn it off if you really want to.

View in HD at . Learn how to be more productive when writing in Pages by using styles, the left sidebar, sections, dictation and more.

View in HD at . Sometimes it can be difficult or impossible to select text to copy from a web page or image. But you can use Live Text or take a screenshot and copy text from that instead.

View in HD at . If text on a web page looks too small for you, you have many different options to make the text larger and the page easier to read.

View in HD at . When iOS 18 comes out this fall you'll be able to put app icons wherever you want, tint your Home Screen, lock apps, add tons of controls to Control Center, and even change the buttons on the Lock Screen.

View in HD at . When you store photos in the Photos app, they become part of your Photos Library. But you can also create albums to view your photos in a different way. What exactly happens when you put a photo from your Library in an album?

View in HD at . Window management is coming to macOS in Sequoia later this year. See how it looks and works so far in the early beta version. You can easily move windows to the left, right, top and bottom, in quarters and more. You have many ways to access these new window management features.

View in HD at . macOS Sequoia is coming this fall. Here's a look at the first new features in the initial beta release. We're going to get window tiling, highlighting and math in Notes, a Passwords app, send later in Messages and much more. There will be more features, including AI, coming later this summer.

View in HD at . If you have a MacBook or a Mac with a Magic trackpad, there is no right button for you to press. But you can still right click using a variety of different techniques.

View in HD at . You can now make noncontiguous text selections in Pages, Numbers and Keynote. Learn how to use this new feature and some possible uses including an interesting way to make noncontiguous pastes.